This is Butterick 5260, a variant on View A. I only had a very small piece of fabric, so I ended up shortening both the top and the sleeves. It was supposed to be a short dress, but it’s a long top now! I also did away with the little piece of elastic gathering at [...]
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…McCalls 6164! I saw a couple of incarnations of McCalls 6164 over at Gigi Sews, and couldn’t believe that this pattern had passed me by. I’m a huge fan of 80s-style pouffy sleeves, so I couldn’t resist grabbing the pattern and sewing view D, which seems to have the most ridiculous sleeves of them all. [...]
I spent yesterday afternoon developing the prototypes I made on Saturday – in fabrics that I’ll actually wear. The top is a pink tartan cotton and viscose blend shirting. I added sleeves, although they didn’t turn out quite how I meant them to. I was intending to make floaty butterfly sleeves, but these have come [...]
This week’s been a pretty hot one, as far as weather goes in the UK. I’m sure most people are thrilled to bits (in fact I can hear them all outside, laughing and enjoying their barbecues in their gardens), but unfortunately for me, I’m really not very good at hot. I get sunstroke very easily, [...]
This is another tunic for Diane – a short hip-length one this time. Diane’s online name is “Bloomeenee”, so you can imagine that she was very keen to have something made from this fabulous Beatles Yellow Submarine fabric! Here’s a YouTube clip of the “Sea of Holes” part of the film. While I was sending [...]
It occurred to me that it would probably help me in my plan to take over the world, if I told you how I was hoping to get there. This is how: I’ve been working on various incarnations of this pretty little tunic dress and top over the past couple of years, and I have [...]